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The purpose of the
demonstration below is to illustrate the relationship
between heat transfer and thermal conductivity
of a material by applying Fourier's law,
,
to plot the temperature
versus the position
through the depth of a multilayer wall. You can vary the
total heat surface heat flux
conducted through the multilayer wall and the surface
temperature at the far left side of the wall,
.
The wall has a constant cross-sectional area
in square meters in the
direction. You can select different materials and their
thicknesses for five layers of the wall, denoting
as the thermal conductivity of layer
.
Given this information, it is possible to determine the
temperature profile through the wall, showing the interior
temperature at each location.